Emmanuel Weyi

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Emmanuel Weyi in December 2014
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Born
Emmanuel Ntima Weyi

(1959-05-29) 29 May 1959 (age 64)
Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Alma mater Ecole Internationale Des Hautes Etudes
Title
CEO of Groupe Weyi (2009-2014)

Emmanuel Ntima Weyi is a Congolese entrepreneur and former presidential candidate [1] for the Democratic Republic of Congo. He served as the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Groupe Weyi International, [2] a mining enterprise focused on the Congo from 2009 to 2014.

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Education

Weyi was born in Kisangani on 29 May 1959, and grew up in a family with 2 brothers and 7 sisters. [3] In 1960, Weyi's family moved to the capital of Kinshasa, where his father would become the head of the Union Zaroise de Banques in 1971. [4] That same year, Weyi completed his completed his elementary schooling at a Catholic school. [5]

In 1972, at the behest of his father, Weyi went back to the Bas-Congo to attend a Catholic boarding school for secondary education. After graduating high school in 1979, he attended the Ecole Internationale Des Hautes Etudes in Paris to study International Relations. [5]

Career

After moving to the US, Weyi attended an English language school, where he learned how to speak and write English, adding to his fluency in French, Lingala, Swahili and Kikongo. [4] In 2003, focusing on business in Congo, he started Groupe Weyi, an enterprise focused on sustainable mining in the DRC. In 2011, it expanded to Kinshasa, DRC. [2] [6]

Presidential campaign

In 2011, Weyi participated in a congress to decide on one candidate to represent the diaspora in the upcoming election of that year. [7] And in 2015, he announced that he would plan to run for president in the 2016 elections when current incumbent Joseph Kabila completed his second and last term in office as mandated by the DRC's constitution. [8] After multiple years-long delays from then-president Kabila, [9] he withdrew his candidacy, with Felix Tshisekedi eventually announced the winner, amid more controversy, [10] in 2019.

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